I started thinking about this from another thread. How would you do it? What characteristics do you consider in intelligence?
The word intelligence gets thrown around a lot. But its all about perspective I think.
A man who graduates on top of his class. Is successful in his life, family, and work. He has a nice car, nice house. Everything he could probably want. He is kind, considerate. An all around great person, and 'intelligent'.
Now take this same guy, and drop him in the middle of the Amazon forest, and tell him to survive for 1 day. Guess what? This man now becomes a complete dumbass!
Same for the Amazonian people. They survive and live forever in the forest. To them, intelligence is knowing which plants are edible, and which are poison. Intelligence is about knowing how to hunt for food. How to live in that climate, how to find drinking water. Same situation...take the amazonian, and drop him in the middle of New York City. Guess what? Yup, he too has just become a dumbass.
I think its very hard to measure intelligence. Before we can, we have to know a persons background, where they have been, and where they are going.
What do you all think?